River Minutes

1-Minute Info Snapshots

Available for school and community groups, and for radio

To receive a CD of the 2004 River Minutes, or a tape cassette of 1997-1999 Voice of the River radio shows, please contact us.

We are looking for sponsors to air these River Minutes in 2005-2006.

Snapshots of the Connecticut River watershed
Focusing on river issues and natural history

2002-2004 written & produced by Derek Levin for Connecticut RiverFest

Made possible by a grant through the Silvio O Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge and the Point radio stations. Also sponsored by Adelphia Corporation and NE Waste Management District, Casella Waste Management Services

2004 Minutes:

1. Bridges
2. Wetlands
3. The River Path
4. American Heritage River
5. Great Egret
6. Beavers
7. Elizabeth Mine
8. Norway Maples
9. RipRap
10. Flyway
11. Loosestrife
12. Shifting Islands
13. Sturgeon
14. Jet Skis
15. Common Mergansers
16. Crawdads
17. Access & Etiquette
18. Water Chestnuts
19. Morey's Invention
20. Cluster Housing - Swallows
21. Alien Invaders
22. Knotweed
23. Eagles
24. Dwarf Wedge Mussels
25. Salmon
26. Fishing
27. Dugout boats of the Abenaki
28. Birchbark Canoes
29. Phragmites
30. Abenaki
31. Meanders
32. Numbers of Tributaries
33. Cedar Waxwings
34. Peregrine Falcon
35. Tributaries - The Ammonoosucs
36. Curvings
37. Logging
38. Mudpuppies
39. Naming Rights
40. Riparian Buffers
41. Vetch
42. Mercury
43. Source
44. Lake Hitchcock
45. Trout
46. Two Cycle Engines
47. Watershed Pollution
48. Commerce
49. Dams
50. Development Control
51. Primitive Canoe Campsites
52. Evolution of Transportation

Voice of the River radio shows

All shows are available to the public on CD or tape
Copies of 1/2 hour interviews are available upon request

1997 shows:

1. Atlantic Salmon
2. Children's Impact on the River
3. The River as a Flyway

1998 shows:

1. Farming--Community Service Agriculture (CSA)
2. Cold Water Fisheries
3. Geology of the Connecticut River
4. River Enhancement--Connecticut River Joint Commissions
5. Tributaries of the Connecticut--Elizabeth Mine Remediation Project
6. Stream Conservation--Trout Unlimited Cooperative Educational Program
7. Elder Memories
8. Atlantic Salmon II--Bethel Fish Hatchery
9. Connecticut River Education Initiative (CREI)
10. Connecticut RiverFest
11. White River Partnership

1999 shows:

1. Long Term Protection options for landowners-NRCD
2. Native Culture--Abenaki relationship with River & Its Environment
3. Keeping the land green and the waters blue--Keeping soil out of the waters--Lake Sunapee Protective Association
4. Upstream Water Quality and soil erosion
5. Recycling & Alternatives to Incineration--Claremont, NH
6. Waste alternatives/ Incineration/Recycling--Bill Gallagher
7. Solid Waste Management--Casella Waste
8. Education in Environmentalism--Newport Earth Institute
9. Invasive Plants in the Watershed--Conte Refuge
10. Connecticut River Watershed Council
11. Montshire Museum River Ecology Programming
12. Reading the Landscape

2002-2003 River Minutes:
52 River Minutes have been developed on watershed issues and natural history topics.